Chapter 1539 Salary 3
Manbao was a little envious. "You're not getting enough food. You should eat more eggs and meat. How about we pay the Shangshi Bureau to give you more dishes?"
Bai Shan hesitated, "Isn't this bad?"
Manbao immediately said: "What's wrong with that? Being able to grow is a good thing. I want to grow taller but I can't."
Bai Shan laughed and said, "Don't compare yourself to us. You're not short. I think you and Xu Yu are almost the same height when you stand together. She's several years older than you, so I'm sure you'll be taller than her in the future."
Just because she grew up among boys, she can't necessarily compare her height with them, right?
Manbao was not very happy, because Xu Yu was not very tall among the palace maids she had met.
Manbao began to think about it. She wondered whether her mother was tall or not. She would ask her mother next time she went home. She would definitely know.
As the two were talking, Xu Yu came in with a lunch box. Seeing Bai Shan sitting in front of the bed, she was startled for a moment, then quickly looked away and bowed her head, "I didn't know you had a guest."
After saying that, he was about to leave, looking as if he didn't want to see anything inappropriate.
Bai Shan quickly stopped her and said, "Ms. Zhou's leg is injured. Go get some water for her to wash and then apply medicine on her."
Manbao, who no longer felt the pain: ...
She hesitated for a moment, thinking that Bai Shan had just carried her back, so she closed her mouth and said nothing.
Bai Shan stood up and said goodbye to her, "Please take the medicine before eating. Do you want me to go to the library to get your book back for you?"
Manbao nodded repeatedly. She did need to repair the book later.
Bai Shan left.
Xu Yu stepped aside to make way for him, and after he left, he quickly stepped forward to look at Manbao, "How did Master Zhou get hurt?"
Manbao said, "You're running too fast."
Xu Yu...
Xu Yu went to get some hot water and was about to help her wash up, but Manbao pushed her hand away and went to wash up herself. She smiled and said, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt much anymore."
Seeing that although she walked slowly, her face did not show much pain, Xu Yu knew that it was not a big deal. She was silent for a moment, wondering if she was on night watch.
Deep down, I felt that Bai Shan was making a big deal out of nothing.
Manbao took a bath, washed his face, and applied the medicine himself without asking Xu Yu for help.
Ever since she knew that Xu Yu always liked to stare at her, Manbao asked Keke to help keep an eye on her. Because it involved the host's life safety and the person was not far away, Keke gave her a discount and only charged her half of the points for staring at the prince.
But after watching for several days, neither Manbao nor Koko could notice anything wrong, except that she always liked to peek at Manbao from time to time.
Yiren Yitong didn't find any problems with the people she came into contact with, and she never said anything against Manbao.
Not to mention Manbao, even Keke felt that it was a bit unfair to spend these points, even though it was the one who earned the points.
In the end, Manbao simply stopped watching it. Wouldn’t it be better to buy books with points?
Although she was no longer keeping an eye on Xu Yu, Manbao was still very careful. She knew that this room in the palace was not very safe. Not only Xu Yu, but also other female officials or palace maids could find a way to get in if they wanted to.
So when she looked at things that didn't belong to this world, she would close the door, and Koko would watch over her. As long as someone approached, she would put the things into the system.
There haven't been any problems so far.
But Manbao still didn't want to let someone who was not sure whether he was a friend or foe get close to her, even though Bai Shan said that Xu Yu didn't have the courage to do anything in front of her as a doctor.
It doesn't hurt much anyway, I can just apply some medicine on it.
Manbao applied the medicine and started to eat. After Xu Yu took the food box away, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang moved her things over together.
She needed a lot of information to revise the book. She had looked up a lot of information in the past month, and it was all piled on the table. Bai Shan simply moved it all to her.
There is also paper and ink provided by Chongwenguan.
After entering the Chongwenguan, Manbao never spent any money on the paper, pens and ink he used, as they were all provided by the Eastern Palace.
Bai Erlang helped put the things on the desk. After looking Manbao up and down, he asked Bai Shan, "Where is she injured? Why can't I see it?"
Before Bai Shan could say anything, Man Bao said, "Now that you can see it, you are a doctor."
Bai Erlang frowned and asked with some concern: "Are you really injured?"
Manbao slowly sat down on the desk and nodded, "Of course it's true. I just applied some medicine. Can't you smell it?"
Bai Erlang sniffed his nose and actually smelled a faint scent of medicine. He asked worriedly, "How did you get hurt?"
Bai Shan also smelled it and simply went to the stove to pick up the teapot and pour water for her. "Do you want me to ask for leave tomorrow?"
Man Bao shook his head. "No, I'll be fine after a night's sleep. At worst, I can ask my second apprentice to give me a few acupuncture treatments tomorrow."
Bai Erlang saw her pouring water and grinding ink, as if ready to work, and felt a little sympathetic. "You still want to work when you're injured?"
Manbao's eyes lit up, and he spoke with regret in an excited tone, "I just checked my salary with the Ministry of Revenue. I'm the emperor's salary, and I'm loyal to him. I'm paid so much, so I can't just not work."
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang didn't hear the regret in her words, but only heard her excitement. They couldn't help but ask, "Is the salary high?"
Manbao seemed to light up, as bright as an oil lamp suddenly lit at night. He was extremely excited, but he suppressed his excitement for a moment, "You must not know how much salary I can get."
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang really didn't know, they had never understood this.
The main thing is that Mr. Zhuang would never bribe them with benefits. If people become officials just for the salary, then why do they become officials?
Whether it is Bai Shan or Bai Erlang, their families have a lot of money and land, so money is actually not that attractive to them.
They are just a little frugal in their daily lives, not that they are so eager for money.
Moreover, Mr. Zhuang doesn't want them to be greedy for money, because that would only cultivate corrupt officials, right?
So Mr. Zhuang never told them how much the salaries of officials at all levels were.
He didn't even say it, let alone Madam Liu and Mr. Bai. They let Bai Shan and Bai Er and others study, not for that little salary, okay?
It is for the sake of bringing honor to the family and fulfilling the wishes of our ancestors.
But at this moment, Manbao had broken through this layer of membrane. She looked at them with shining eyes and said, "I am a fifth-rank editor, and my monthly salary is 3,600 coins. The sixth-rank imperial physician's monthly salary is 2,400 coins."
Bai Shan asked, "That's about the same as what you make as a doctor at Jishiditang. You make five taels of silver a month at Jishiditang, not counting your income from outpatient visits."
Now that Manbao is in the palace, he has no income from medical consultations.
Manbao's eyes lit up as he said, "But this is just the salary. Besides the salary, there are also silk, cloth, cotton, and rice every quarter. A fifth-rank editor gets 15 dan per month, and a sixth-rank imperial physician gets 8 dan per month. Most importantly, I also have official land. Although it hasn't been paid out yet and will be approved after the autumn harvest, I, a fifth-rank editor, get 600 mu of official land, and a sixth-rank imperial physician gets 400 mu."
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(End of this chapter)
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